CVE-2016-9897

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Overview

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Ubuntu Security Notice 3165-1 - Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Andrew Krasichkov discovered that event handlers on <marquee> elements were executed despite a Content Security Policy that disallowed inline JavaScript. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Various other issues were also addressed.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 3757-1 - Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian's version of to the execution of arbitrary code, data leakage or bypass of the content security policy.

Ubuntu Security Notice 3155-1 - Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.